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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, in 1871. Considered a master of the genre of literary nonsense, he is renowned for his ingenious wordplay and sense of logic, and his highly original vision.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not really a poetry reader and/or lover. But I am a fan of Alice in Wonderland. So poems by Carroll suit me. I enjoyed the small stories that are told in the poems. I should find Through the looking glass somewhere....
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lewis Carroll is a genius of fun and humor. I can easily see myself reading these poems over and over again.
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Jabberwocky and Other Poems - Lewis Carroll
JABBERWOCKY
AND
OTHER POEMS
By LEWIS CARROLL
Jabberwocky and Other Poems
By Lewis Carroll
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5887-4
eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5888-1
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Cover Image: a detail of an illustration by Charles Robinson which appeared in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
published by Cassell and company, London, 1907.
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CONTENTS
EARLY VERSE
MY FAIRY
PUNCTUALITY
MELODIES
BROTHER AND SISTER
FACTS
RULES AND REGULATIONS
HORRORS
MISUNDERSTANDINGS
AS IT FELL UPON A DAY
PHOTOGRAPHY EXTRAORDINARY
LAYS OF MYSTERY, IMAGINATION, AND HUMOUR
FROM ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
HOW DOTH…
THE DUCHESS’S LULLABY
THE MOUSE’S TALE
FATHER WILLIAM
THE MAD HATTER’S SONG
THE MOCK TURTLE’S SONG
ALICE’S RECITATION
TURTLE SOUP
EVIDENCE READ AT THE TRIAL OF THE KNAVE OF HEARTS
FROM THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
DEDICATION
JABBERWOCKY
THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
HUMPTY DUMPTY’S RECITATION
THE WHITE KNIGHT’S BALLAD
FROM PHANTASMAGORIA AND OTHER POEMS
A SEA DIRGE
HIAWATHA’S PHOTOGRAPHING
MELANCHOLETTA
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR
FROM COLLEGE RHYMES AND NOTES BY AN OXFORD CHIEL
MY FANCY
A BACHANALIAN ODE
OTHER VERSES
A POEM TO RACHEL DANIEL
FROM SYLVIE AND BRUNO
THE MAD GARDENER’S SONG
PETER AND PAUL
FROM SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED
MATILDA JANE
WHAT TOTTLES MEANT
THE LITTLE MAN THAT HAD A LITTLE GUN
THE PIG-TALE
BIOGRAPHICAL AFTERWORD
Early Verse
MY FAIRY
(From Useful and Instructive Poetry, 1845)
I have a fairy by my side
Which says I must not sleep,
When once in pain I loudly cried
It said You must not weep
If, full of mirth, I smile and grin,
It says You must not laugh
When once I wished to drink some gin
It said You must not quaff
.
When once a meal I wished to taste
It said You must not bite
When to the wars I went in haste
It said You must not fight
.
What may I do?
at length I cried,
Tired of the painful task.
The fairy quietly replied,
And said You must not ask
.
Moral: You mustn’t.
PUNCTUALITY
(From Useful and Instructive Poetry)
Man Naturally loves delay,
And to procrastinate;
Business put off from day to day
Is always done to late.
Let ever hour be in its place
Firm fixed, nor loosely shift,
And well enjoy the vacant space,
As though a birthday gift.
And when the hour arrives, be there,
Where’er that there
may be;
Uncleanly hands or ruffled hair
Let no one ever see.
If dinner at half-past
be placed,
At half-past
then be dressed.
If at a quarter-past
make haste
To be down with the rest
Better to be before you time,
Than e’re to be behind;
To open the door while strikes the chime,
That shows a punctual mind.
Moral
Let punctuality and care
Seize every flitting hour,
So shalt thou cull a floweret fair,
E’en from a fading flower
MELODIES
(From Useful and Instructive Poetry)
I
There was an old farmer of Readall,
Who made holes in his face with a needle,
Then went far deeper in
Than to pierce through his skin,
And yet strange to say he was made beadle.
II
There was an eccentric old draper,
Who wore a hat made of paper,
It went up to a point,
Yet it looked out of joint,
The cause of which he said was vapour
III
There was once a man of Oporta,
Who daily got shorter and shorter,
The reason he said
Was the hod on his head,
Which was filled with the heaviest mortar.
His sister, named Lucy O’Finner,
Grew constantly thinner and thinner;
The reason was plain,
She slept out in the rain,